Turn Table for Microscope Slides
Turn Table for Microscope Slides
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- Description
- Walter H. Bulloch (1835-1891) was born in Glasgow, worked for Benjamin Pike & Son in New York, and opened his own microscope shop in Chicago in 1866. He submitted this model of a turn-table for microscope slides with his 1880 patent application.
- Ref: W. H. Bulloch, “Turn-Table for Microscope Slides,” U.S. Patent 226,648 (April 20, 1880).
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- turn table
- Object Type
- Patent Model
- patent holder; inventor
- Bulloch, Walter H.
- place made
- United States: Illinois, Chicago
- Measurements
- overall: 2 5/8 in x 4 in x 7 1/2 in; 6.6675 cm x 10.16 cm x 19.05 cm
- ID Number
- 2012.0165.912
- catalog number
- 2012.0165.912
- accession number
- 2012.0165
- patent number
- 226,648
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- Medicine and Science: Medicine
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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